An interdisciplinary approach to examining the role of cytokines in the development of sepsis and multiple organ failure. The contributions explore all aspects of two growth factors, interleukin I and interleukin VI, as far as these molecules trigger the pathological process.

A report on new findings involving the brain in traumatic and septic shock, and after brain injury. Adopting an experimental and clinical approach to treatment, the book presents specific results obtained from the encephalogram and from histopathological study with regard to the immunohistochemistry of toxic lipid peroxidant products. It also includes the latest results of clinical and experimental pathophysiology in inflammatory processes after traumatic brain injury and the therapeutic effects of hypertonic fluid therapy.